Recently added articles from Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900:
Jacob and Esau and the iconoclasm of merit.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... John E. Curran Jr., Jacob and Esau and the Iconoclasm of Merit This article contends that the mid-Tudor interlude Jacob and Esau, long known to have a Protestant slant, promotes a Calvinistic doctrine of election consonant with Edwardian theology and that in doing so it also ...
Allusion and sacrifice in Titus Andronicus.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Danielle A. St. Hilaire, Allusion and Sacrifice in Titus Andronicus This essay defends Shakespeare's character Titus Andronicus against recent criticism by arguing that the calamitous events in Titus Andronicus are not caused by Titus behaving badly but by the construction of ...
Making "Young Hamlet".(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Matthew Harkins. Making "Young Hamlet" While youth's subordinate position in Hamlet has played a vital role within the play's critical tradition, this tradition has not questioned the ideological processes that create "youth" as a social category--that define what youth means, ...
Music and the crisis of meaning in Othello.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Erin Minear, Music and the Crisis of Meaning in Othello The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice has been called Shakespeare's most musical tragedy, but critics examining the role of music in the play have tended to use the word in very different and even contradictory ways ....
Dramatic nostalgia and spectacular conversion in Dekker and Massinger's: the virgin Martyr.(Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Holly Crawford Pickett. Dramatic Nostalgia and Spectacular Conversion in Dekker and Massinger's The Virgin Martyr Critical debates about Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger's The Virgin Martyr (1620) often center on the play's Protestant or Catholic sympathies, but the play's ...
Staging the Jesuitess in A Game at Chess.(Mary Ward)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Caroline Bicks, Staging the Jesuitess in A Game at Chess This essay explores early modern reactions to the "Jesuitess" Mary Ward's theatrical training of English girls in her Catholic schools on the Continent. I argue that the negative response to Ward's work from her English ...
Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Paul Whitfield White, Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of Tudor and Stuart drama and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of the works received by SEL ...
Books received.
Mar 22, 2009 ... Adelman, Janet. Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in "The Merchant of Venice." Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 228. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-226-00681-9. Anderson. Judith H. Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser. Shakespeare. Milton. New ...
The two Arcadias of Sidney's two Arcadias.(Philip Sidney, The Old and New Arcadia)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sir Philip Sidney's land of Arcadia has never been found very satisfactory as a setting for the events of his Arcadia. In particular, a chorus of voices has protested that Sidney's Arcadia is not pastoral enough, which seems strange when in most readers' minds Arcadia is a setting ...
Friendship in Sidney's Arcadias.(Philip Sidney)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sir Philip Sidney's two versions of the Arcadia are the fullest and most successful narrative deployments of the humanist tradition of ideal friendship to appear before an increasing skepticism about this ideal emerged in the 1590s. (1) In both versions of Arcadia, friendship is the ...
How temperance becomes "Blood Guiltie" in The Faerie Queene.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In 1972, Ricardo J. Quinones published The Renaissance Discovery of Time, whose playful immodesty indicates the centrality of temporality to literary periodization. In this analysis, the emergent sense of time as an "antagonist" provokes an "energetic, even heroic response" distinguishing ...
Donne's Hawkings.(John Donne)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... During the first decade of the seventeenth century, John Donne used letters and journeys to stitch the disparate pieces of his life together. His secret marriage to Ann More in December 1601 had led to his dismissal from the service of Sir Thomas Egerton--the Lord Keeper and Ann's ...
Samuel Sheppard's Faerie King and the Fragmentation of Royalist Epic.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In 1648, imprisoned for publishing Royalist propaganda, the journalist Samuel Sheppard began The Faerie King, a poem "Fashioning Love & Honour In an Heroicall Heliconian Dresse." (1) Unfinished, virtually unknown, and in several places almost unintelligible, The Faerie King offers a ...
The Orphic singer of Milton's Nativity Ode.(John Milton)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Milton wrote "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" early in his literary career, composing about the time of his twenty-first birthday a supposedly Christian hymn that would be strangely out of tune with his Latin elegies about spring, the old gods, and his own choices in life. While ...
Spatial allegory and creation old and new in Milton's Hexaemeral Narrative.(John Milton)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> [Paradise Lost] contains the history of a miracle, of Creation and Redemption; it displays the power and the mercy of the Supreme Being. --Samuel Johnson (1) </Pre> Michael Edwards's exploration of Christian poetics helps us to understand the narratives of Milton's ...
Using the Thomason Tracts and their significance for Milton studies.(George Thomason, John Milton)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Because of the dates and annotations accompanying the copies of the works in George Thomason's collection, the mid-seventeenth-century publications collected by the bookseller have frequently been cited in studies related to Milton. Known as the "Thomason Tracts," they are owned by the ...
The accommodating Serpent and God's grace in paradise lost.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In foregrounding the literal-historical reading of the account of the Fall in Genesis, both making the Serpent a real serpent and identifying the Serpent with Satan, and in reading the judgment upon the Serpent typologically as foretelling Christ's victory over Satan, Paradise Lost ...
Recent studies in the English Renaissance.(Recommended readings)
Jan 01, 2009; ... A sense of manifest destiny seems to inform recent scholarship on English Renaissance literature. Witness only the increased use of the more expansive concept "early modern" as a substitute for "Renaissance" and the widely accepted practice of deploying both terms to describe a period that ...
Books received.
Jan 01, 2009 ... Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere "La Colombaria" 241 (2007): "Ways of Paradox from Lando to Donne." Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Firenze: Leo S, Olschki Editore, 2007. Pp. 220. [euro]23.00. ISSN 0065-0781. Achinstein, Sharon, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Milton and ...
Abstracts.
Jan 01, 2009 ... Piers Brown, Donne's Hawkings In this article, I use Donne's offhand description of composition as hawking as the basis for a consideration of his depictions of the motions and trajectories of the writing mind. I examine Donne's descriptions of the mental processes of writing in ...